Cuyahoga Community College

Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) President Jerry Sue Thornton 'touch of Alzheimers' - not appropriate for Tri-C classes or Cleveland Municipal Court

16th of Jun, 2011 by User415608

Classes at Tri-C Main Campus for a Surgical Technology course Fall 2010 Semester deteriorated to 'b*tch-slap,' jack-up, and just nasty inappropriate comments - leading to emails that were begging for some help and improvements. These emails are now at Cleveland Municipal Court - not because they were wrong, or inappropriate, beyond the course/grade dispute time limits, or other than just 'what is going on?' - but because Tri-C makes 'criminals' out of students that try to work through the course problems - course problems that need administrative fixing - and not screaming at one student and sending her 10 certified mailings. The certified mail & emails for this course, and calculus III in the summer, were a syllabus in themselves - and costly. Tri-C could have hired another RN nurse educator to help Ms. Luvenia for the price of the certified mail threatening me, and there was another black RN supposed to help but never asked to do some of the work. For the price of lecturing me for hours in August 2010, on why I came forward about Derek Hiley - there could have been a Math PhD hired to help him for the summer - every other college does this for an instructor with temporarily health problems, moving difficulties (he was moving for a year however), or undergoing surgery - but Dean May never checked on things and then blamed me and 5-10 other students for not whistleblowing in time - that was Dean May & Karen Miller's problem. This is not my job. None of this should have to be on ripoff, or in court. There's a lawyer - Brian Stenger @ (216)272-5097 - AND YOU CAN PAY THE COURT COSTS. PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS: the legal costs of a Tri-C education are not worth it. Karen Miller starts court fights; a nasty piece of work, a talking-head who does no real work of teaching, fixing course problems, or checking on possible problem situations like professors having surgery or getting too old to do the physical work of the class without employing all the second year students full-time at no cost. It's not appropriate for me to say in Cleveland Municipal Court - not a city problem - that the CCF clinic RN instructor said that she had a 'touch of Alzheimer's' when she couldn't answer some easy questions - and that didn't make me have confidence in her teaching abilities. Whether she did or not, there are 10,000 better answers when you can't remember something - answers that every other professional uses many times a day. Most people know that even if they have early Alzheimer's, you don't say it out loud in the halls of the CCF ORs; you sign your retirement papers, or move on to Emeritus and part-time. Ms. Luvenia has been supposed to move on - train her replacement - for years now. She's basically tired, but likes the money; earth to Beth Stokes. Ms. Luvenia gets very well paid for what little she does - that she could remember to say in class - she can cash her checks just fine. Ms. Luvenia had to physically rely on the second year students to do most of the teaching and moving of furniture, instrument sets, etc; in December, 2010 she couldn't have moved the OR bed that she had me and another male student try to move as part of a practical test - where it wasn't one of the skill tasks to be checked - but that's how her mind works. She also had certain students checking for instruments not stocked in that area of the Clinic ORs - for fun. The second year student teaching was good, but not at all standardized as to what Ms. Luvenia really wanted - she wouldn't even share, or tell them, exactly how she wanted tasks done, and they weren't compensated for doing her job. It wasn't just Ms. Luvenia's inappropriate comments at times (that 'she didn't call on me' or 'say that I could speak'), inappropriate tasks and verbal harangues while certain non-diversity (diversity is the majority student at Tri-C Main Campus) students tried to do their practicals with her, it was that it was time that she had someone share the teaching duties & practicals should be done with a witness second year student. Another nurse instructor there shared that her 'harshness' at times was hard for other staff to deal with, it wasn't just me. It's not prejudice, or racism, when an instructor doesn't 'work' for a student - it happens all the time at every college - and you handle it AS EVERY OTHER COLLEGE DOES - but not by accusing the student of prejudice x2, racism, and disruptive behaviors - when she says literally nothing in class and at the end emails all her notes to all the black & diversity (LGBT) students insulting/threatening her - SO THAT THEY HAD SOMETHING TO STUDY INSTEAD OF CALLING ME ON THE PHONE AND INSULTING ME AS C--- THREATENED TO HAVE A----- DO, as A----- had dropped. Both D----- & T------- watched that I said 'nothing' in class unless directly asked - so that any 'word' of mine would not interfere with any black/diversity student's total monopoly of the classroom situation - all volunteered answers after the first week of classes were by the rest of the class. But that's not how things work at any other college - every student in the Surgical Technology Program Fall 2010 had enough smarts to do the studying themselves, and to do very well without having to insult, harass, & bully me out of class - but they weren't expected to shut their mouth and do their work - they wanted my notes and review sheets & they got them - the wrong way. After calling me a 'bitch' for 45 minutes, I was ready to give them everything - including any jewelry they liked of mine - except my phone & car keys = my exit strategy if I had to that night. EXTRA HELP: all the black students got 5-10 extra labs that were just scheduled by Ms. Luvenia (they were invited to come on Tuesdays 'to get the lay of the land' at Cleveland Clinic - so as to put them forward for any jobs from day #1; black-to-black help) - which I understand, but in 2010 it made for the polarization of the class - all the catering to certain students, the favoring, the allowing certain students to literally say anything, turn in tests & assignments late, and discuss anything - including gender reassignment surgery and when the sexual feeling/urges come back. . . Further, I'm sure last summer at Tri-C East Campus, calculus III course problems - where a Professor took a 10 day leave/56 days, for moving & surgery, and was not well for most of the other 7 weeks - caused problems in the Fall - I was 'marked for destruction.' But Dean May & Dean Karen Miller knew that the surgery was not minor, and that THEY needed to check on things - and they didn't. All I knew was that the guy was losing weight, looked terrible, went to surgery, and didn't look well again until Finals Week, but didn't turn anything back or post anything on time - for the whole 8 weeks. After he returned from surgery, he would 'fade' at the end of the lectures - and many were afraid that something was going to happen - they knew 'something' was wrong - but not about the surgery. Dean Karen Miller blamed me, and I didn't have the information that the Administration at Tri-C did about the man's health issues. Any other college would have hired a temporary calculus III professor, dime-a-dozen in the summer; all over town Math PhDs would drool to teach a few weeks and not the whole session - summer vacation money without all the trouble. TEACHING POINT: None of the Tri-C curriculum, instructor, or student bullying problems belong in Cleveland Municipal Court; that is a 'touch of Alzheimer's' literally - that President Thornton, Dean Miller, & Beth Stokes communicate so badly that threatening people is their way of solving a problem, that they admitted was 'very bad dynamics,' is just unbelieveable. Women-to-women this is just gross - but sad. Diversity issues, verbal bullying, instructor issues - are problems that every other college in the Cleveland area can deal with - without involving Cleveland Municipal Court - just not Tri-C. Until there are assurances of improvements based on discussions of the present hell - dragged to court with a serious fracture that Tri-C partially contributed to - that I'm going through, white students, and summer college students hoping to do summer studying in courses where the Professor is not in surgery, should go elsewhere. If you don't want to have to deal with an instructor explaining she has a 'touch of Alzheimer's,' a Math PhD having surgery for the Summer Session with no fill-in lecturer that shows up more than once, students calling you a b*tch, or having your emails in Criminal Court - go elsewhere. Tri-C is out-of-control as to how they solve problems, and they have the state monies & resources to run very good programs, hire instructors who are there and not making excuses, and to solve their problems in the 'normal' ways - discussions without threats, probations for prejudice, mail harassment, and bullying. This has been emotionally totally cruel. There has to be somewhere to go for BULLYING problems besides Karen Miller - and her secretary Shari was the one who told me that 'didn't I get the message' - that all the mail, allowed verbal abuse in class, taking me out of class, probation threats were because I didn't 'drop' the course right away. Well, that's not a good excuse for what happened. But this does not belong in Cleveland Municipal Court as telecommunications harassment - I took the F and the dismissal, but filed the grade dispute to see the test results, promote some discussion of the problems and stop the MAIL. Literally from the calculus class problems to present, I've been harassed - all of which affected my health and contributed to a serious fracture. Find someone else to harass - start teaching at Tri-C. Beth Stokes should be teaching, not taking two weeks off and lecturing me on prejudice - reading my emails instead of correcting the errors in the course materials. You shouldn't have to send more than 5-10 emails per course per semester if the Professor/Instructor has done their job and everything is on Blackboard on time.

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